Finnish words beginning with 'haast'

How many of these haast-words for you already know?

1. haastaa
2. haastava
3. haastatella
4. haastattelu
5. haastattelija 
6. haastateltava 
7. haaste
8. haastella

Here are the translations: 

1. haastaa - to challenge
2. haastava - challenging
3. haastatella - to interview
4. haastattelu - an interview
5. haastattelija - an interviewer
6. haastateltava - an interviewee
7. haaste - a challenge
8. haastella - to chat, to talk (a bit old-fashioned, but it exists.)

Pay attention the Finnish word derivation: 

• Haastattelija is like many professions in Finnish. 
• Haastateltava is a present passive participle.
• Haastava is a present active participle.
• Haastella and haastatella are frequentative verbs. 
• Haaste ends with an e. I don't have a blog post about it, but I have this cool list on Google Docs. 

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